Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:28:29 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUCCESS! was: Re: installing from CD Message-ID: <200906240828.29922.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090623160004.GB8702@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090623160004.GB8702@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 12:00:04 pm Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:54:33AM -0600, ToyoRunner wrote:
> > If you get your box up, try logging into it with ssh. I was running
> > 6-STABLE and for some reason I too could not get the serial console to
> > display the login prompt. However, ssh login worked fine for me.
>
> success!!
>
> Many thanks to all list participants!
>
> I got into the newly installed system via ssh.
>
> # uname -srm
> FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT-200906 ia64
> #
>
>
> # df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/da0p2 496M 35M 421M 8% /
> devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
> /dev/da0p1 256M 156M 100M 61% /efi
> /dev/da0p5 496M 12K 456M 0% /tmp
> /dev/da0p6 11G 236M 10G 2% /usr
> /dev/da0p4 1.9G 228K 1.8G 0% /var
> #
>
> Note the EFI files take up 156 MB, whereas the EFI partition created
> by default by the installation program was only 100 MB. This is
> probably a reason for having loader.efi of zero size.
> So, it seems, the installation program needs to be updated to reflect this.
Looks like this might address that:
Index: usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c
===================================================================
--- usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c (revision 194698)
+++ usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c (working copy)
@@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@
#ifdef __ia64__
AutoEfi = NULL;
if (EfiChunk == NULL) {
- sz = 100 * ONE_MEG;
+ sz = 200 * ONE_MEG;
AutoEfi = Create_Chunk_DWIM(label_chunk_info[here].c->disk,
label_chunk_info[here].c, sz, efi, 0, 0);
if (AutoEfi == NULL) {
Marcel, do you think this change is ok to bump the EFI part up to 200MB for
8.0?
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John Baldwin
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